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Summary of Billy Porter’s sermon on “Hell”(as heard on 3/11/2007, evening services)Disclaimer:
I have constructed the following outline based upon my recollection of Billy Porter’s sermon, and with the aid of my mother’s handwritten notes. I do not havethe convenience of a tape recording to aid my outlining. While my summary or my notesmay be imperfect, I believe that this is an accurate representation of the sermon content.
Sermon Introduction – The Bible Preaches Hell
 
Mr. Porter stated that he felt led to preach a sermon on hell.
 
Some people have changed the meaning of the word
hell 
. For example, Billy Graham has changed his meaning of the word
hell 
to mean ”separation fromGod.”
 
There is a “silly TV program” called “Fear Factor.”
 
There are 31 specific references to “hell” in the Old Testament, and 22 (sic)specific references to
hell 
in the New Testament.
 
There is more information about hell in the Bible than any other subject. Billy Porter read four verses from Psalms:Psalms 9:17The wicked shall be turned into hell,
and 
all the nations that forget God.Psalms 18:5The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.Psalms 55:15Let death seize upon them,
and 
let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness
is
in their dwellings,
and 
among them.Psalms 116:3The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell got hold upon me: Ifound trouble and sorrow.
 
In the New Testament, Jesus Christ talked about hell more than any other subject.He talked about hell eight times in his 3 and ½ year ministry. Billy Porterreferenced 4 scriptures: Matthew 5:22, Matthew 5:29, Matthew 10:28, and Luke10:15. (I do not think he read these aloud.)
Sermon Point – Human Experiences Prove Hell
 
Disclaimer from Billy Porter – he is not sure how authentic these humanexperiences are.
 
Maurice Rawlings is a cardiologist. He observed a man dying in front of him thatclaimed “I’m in hell… you’ve got to do something… you’ve got to get me out!”Doctor Rawlings was taking a stress test from his still-living subject at the time.)
 
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The doctor Rawlings became scared and later “got saved” based on thisexperience.
 
Doctor Rawlings began research by interviewing people who have beenresuscitated. He found that they could not remember their impressions afterabout more than 15 minutes had passed from the experience. However, if heinterviewed subjects within the 15 minutes, some people gave details involvingtorment and fire.
 
 All of this information is based on a book written by Doctor Rawlings, based onhis interviews.
 
 A nurse from the state of Washington wrote an article. She witnessed to a patient who finally said “I do not want to hear the name of Jesus out of you.” Later hesaid “You’re on fire, the room is on fire…” and then said “I’m in hell don’t follow me” and afterwards he went to sleep and died.
 
Further disclaimer from Billy Porter - he cannot attest to the authenticity of thefollowing three stories.
 
Fourteen kilometers beneath the earth’s surface, Russian engineers put amicrophone into a well and heard “millions of souls screaming.” The communistengineer said that he “didn’t believe in God, but he now believed in hell.”
 
Jacques Costeau said heard the screams of hell when he was diving.
 
Some people have heard screams at the site of a volcanic eruption.
Sermon Point – The Logic of Justice Argument 
 
There are asylums for non-conformists.
 
There is a Hell for those who don’t “get saved.”
 
There are graveyards for the dead.
 
There are cesspools for human waste.
 
Billy Porter quoted Revelation 21:27.Revelation 21:27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither
whatsoever 
  worketh abomination, or
maketh
a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.
 
 We can only take the life of a murderer that takes a man’s firstborn son. But,punishment has got to be eternal - because God goes on forever.
Sermon Point – Hell is not good
 
 
The expression “go to hell” is not wishing someone well.
Sermon Point – Colors have meanings 
 
Red is exciting, danger, stop, emergency vehicles, warning, etc. Green is OK, fine. Amber is caution. Brown and green are soothing.
 
Most fire trucks are painted red.
 
There is an old John Wayne movie called “Hellfighters” with Red Adair (an oil well firefighter)
 
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Elevators used to have a red button for down and a green button for up.
 
“Red” China is communist.
 
Satan is sometimes symbolized as being red with a pitchfork.
 
Most people don’t realize that the symbol on an ambulance is a symbol of aserpent. The book of Numbers refers to fiery serpents sent to punish Israel, andthey had to look at a brass serpent on a pole in order to be healed. Emergency lights are a symbol of death and dying.
 
In the Bible, Satan is described as a red dragon.
 
 A “Red light” district is associated with sinful activity.
 
“Sins are red as scarlet” is a biblical phrase.
 
The Red Sea was God’s wrath on Pharaoh.
Sermon Point – Jesus describes a man tormented in hell
 
 
In Luke 16:19 Jesus is describing a man in hell.
 
States that this is not a parable. Billy Porter cited (not quoted) Luke 16:1 as proof.
 
Hell Fact – A great gulf is fixed between hell and Abraham’s bosom.
 
Hell Fact – These places are not too far from one to the other.
 
Hell Fact – There are saved and there are lost.
 
Hell Fact – “The rich man lifted up his eyes, being in torment” proves that thesoul has a bodily shape, just like the body that we have here.
 
Hell Fact – “Abraham’s bosom” is a special heaven for the saints that died beforeJesus’s death.
Sermon Point – “More Facts About Hell”
 
Hell is a fire, a place of torment.
 
Being burnt is the worst thing that can happen to you. Our experience tells usthat a burn is painful. Being aflame is so horrible, that when a WWII fighter pilotgot stuck in his burning cockpit, he crashed his plane into the ground to escape.
 
“Weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth” proves agony.
 
Hell has “No rest day or night” – if you stay up for a long time it is torturous.
 
Hell is “outer darkness”
 
The smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever….it is a hotel where youcheck in and you don’t check out.
 
There are firemen’s stories of people trapped in fire that cannot get out – it is ahorrible experience.
Conclusion – We need to fear hell 
 
Hell is a fearful place.
 
People used to advertise life insurance by using the “fear of losing a good deal”.
 
“The Fear Factor” (a reference to the TV program) is essential to be saved.
 
 You cannot be saved without fearing hell.
 
“Fear” is the beginning of wisdom.
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